Edmund Lodge Portraits Illustrious Personalities engravings
Exquisite 1840s Antique Portrait Print
GEORGE ABBOT, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
Engraved by: W. T. MOTE
FROM THE ORIGINAL, IN THE COLLECTION OF
THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF VERULAM
Published for Lodge's Portraits by THE LONDON PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY
Approximate Portrait Image Area Size: 4 X 5 inches
Approximate Size With Decorated Border and vignettes: 6 X 7 1/2 inches
Approximate Overall Size with margins: 7 X 10 1/2 inches
Exquisite 1840s Steel Engraving - Lovely Antique Portrait Print
CONDITION: Very Good Condition. Blank on Reverse side and printed heavier paper. A beautiful print, lovely work of art.
A beautiful elaborate fleur de lis scrollwork decorative border surrounds the image, with a tiny vignette at the top of the portrait image. The vignette may represent the family coat of arms or crest. The celtic like ornamental perimeter scrollwork surrounding the portrait is a beautiful work of art, typical of a John Tallis type production. A great historical portrait print for a genealogy buff looking for family heritage or royalty type prints.
George Abbot (1562-1633), archbishop of Canterbury. He was one of the collaborators (from Oxford University) on the Authorized Version of the Bible and was an authority on geography. He became archbishop in 1611. His firm Puritan views and antipathy toward the growing High Church party made him unpopular. His accidental killing of a gamekeeper while hunting (1621) was used against him. His steady opposition to William Laud , together with his refusal (1627) to countenance the elevation of the king's prerogative over law and Parliament, led Charles I to force him from active control over church affairs. English divine, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Guildford in Surrey, where his father was a cloth-worker. He studied, and then taught, at Balliol College, Oxford, was chosen master of University College in 1597, and appointed dean of Winchester in 1600. He was three times vice-chancellor of the university, and took a leading part in preparing the authorized version of the New Testament.
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